[rockrr]

The rebels tried to legitimize their insurrection by calling it a secession but no one - even the rebels - considered unilateral secession legitimate.

And the colonialists never tried to split hairs by calling theirs a secession. They knew it was rebellion plain and simple.

[Lee'sGhost]

LOL!

[x]

Sounds like there may be something a little wrong with our blogger Dick Williams. He seems to have it in for Kevin Levin. Is it perhaps anti-rhymism?

I don't have a problem with "The War Between the States." It's better than the polemical versions you find out there, but it does have just a hint of an old fashioned, eccentric feel to it.

I notice many of the instances Williams finds for TWBTS, also use "The Civil War." It sounds like they just throw in TWBTS to keep from saying "Civil War" over and over again.

[CodeToad]

“but no one - even the rebels - considered unilateral secession legitimate.”

Says you, a yankee liberal.

[MikefromOhio]

And the colonialists never tried to split hairs by calling theirs a secession. They knew it was rebellion plain and simple.

That would require the wannabe Confederates to be intellectually honest about the causes of the Civil War.

Instead I'm sure we'll get nothing but keyboard warrior wannabe and never do anything about it flames and that's about it. Such is life on FR.